Posts Tagged «iron oxide»

The rasping organ of the humble marine snail assembles tools from the hardest known biomaterial — fiber-reinforced crystalline magnetite. Fortunately, the marine snail has been slow to file its patents and others have now jumped in to command this newly revealed tool for themselves.

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